Blake Spalding is co-owner and chef at Hell's Backbone Grill at the edge of Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. Blake is more than an advocate for the land--she is in deep relationship with the spirit and the body of the land. As a brilliantly sensitive human, Blake talks about how ritual and poetry give her courage to face the suffering and pain we are all experiencing in the shadow of patriarchy, white supremacy, and other systems that keep us sick. Her resiliency as she lives a life of activism and advocacy is proof of the radical courage of her heart. Her work is to feed people, and Blake's hearth is always open to seen and unseen friends and allies. In this episode, Blake reads the poems of Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and Denise Levertov.